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oggz-validate

oggz-validate(1)					      General Commands Manual						  oggz-validate(1)

NAME

       oggz-validate -- Validate the Ogg framing of one or more files

SYNOPSIS

       oggz-validate  [-M num  | --max-errors num ]  [-p  | --prefix ]	[-s  | --suffix ]  [-P	| --partial ] filename ...

       oggz-validate [-h  | --help ]  [-v  | --version ]

Description
       oggz-validate validates the Ogg framing of one or more Ogg files.

       oggz-validate detects the following errors in Ogg framing:

	  o  File contains no Ogg packets

	  o  Packets out of order

	  o  Packet belongs to unknown serialno

	  o  Granulepos decreasing within track

	  o  Multiple bos pages

	  o  Multiple eos pages

	  o  eos marked but no bos

	  o  Missing eos packets

	  o  eos marked on page with no completed packets

	  o  Granulepos on page with no completed packets

	  o  Theora video bos page after audio bos page

	  o  Terminal header page has non-zero granulepos

	  o  Terminal header page contains non-header packet

	  o  Terminal header page contains non-header segment

       oggz-validate exits with status 0 if all files are valid Ogg files, and with status 1 if one or more errors are found.

Options
       oggz-validate accepts the following options:

   Error reporting options
       -M num, --max-errors num
		 Exit after the specified number of errors. A value of 0 specifies no maximum.

       -p, --prefix
		 Treat input as the prefix of a stream; suppress warnings about missing end-of-stream markers

       -s, --suffix
		 Treat input as the suffix of a stream; suppress warnings about missing beginning-of-stream markers on the first chain

       -P, --partial
		 Treat input as a the middle portion of a stream. Equivalent to both --prefix and --suffix

   Miscellaneous options
       -h, --help
		 Display usage information and exit.

       -v, --version
		 Output version information and exit.

AUTHOR

       Conrad Parker	    April 3, 2005;

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005 CSIRO Australia

SEE ALSO

       oggz-sort(1), oggz-dump(1), oggz-info(1)

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